San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1887-08-04

bidding of SO great man as MIR.
Representative McGehee or the
sweet-scented and altogether lovely
representative of the saloon interest.
But our last quotation left brother
McGehee denouncing us, and we
know our readers will be edited, as we
were, we in reading the ''bull of ex-
communication of the small pope OF
San Marcos. That recently fulminat-
ed from st. Peters against Rev. DR..
McGlynn pales in comparison. So
we give it in in full (the italics and
small capitals of all the quotations
we have made from him are his) as
as the grand peroration of his"piece. "
Read:
I shall take this means of denoun-
cling him as FRAUD and LIAR and an
abolitionist and communist from his
earliest manhood, (see his fourth of
July speech or address delivered
away up in Iowa. hater of Southern
men, Institutions md ideas, man
who did all in his power to bring on
the late war by the PRONUNCIATION of
abolition doctrines and then coward
ly hid behind newspaper in Iudi-
ana and urged the suppression of the
rebellion qoith the s,c0rd and torch
and the murder Of the acOmen and
children of the South # touad neces.
sary. Some of us, who followed
Sherman from Chattanooga to Sa-
vannah know how such advice was
taken. When the brave men of the
North had conquered peace, he, with
the horde of skulks and army follow
ers came south to abuse southern
men, and he never loses an opportun
ity to do SO, and by any and all means
wiring from the impoverished people
of the South every dollar in their
power. This is q truthful picture of
1. HI. Julian, editor of the Free Press,
who in beginning the publication of
a newspaper at San Marcos issued
two editions-one pseudo Democrat
ic for circulation in Hays County, the
other Republican for transmission to
his friends in Indiana. He never
lacks an opportunity to abuse your
public officials, from the highest to
the lowest. The life of his paper is
o tissue of Islander and adroit under
hand attacks on the Democratic party.
In answer to the noisy inquiries of
the editor of the Free Press,
who would have rejoiced over the
slaughter of the women and children
Of the south from 1861 to 1865, but
who now claims so much solicitude
for their welfare, as self-constituted
flag-bearer of the prohibitionists of
Hays county, I have only to say 1
will vote against the amendment, be-
Iieving it to be impolitic, unwise and
unjust, tyrannical and calculated to
plant seeds of strife in every commu-
nifty and household of Texas.
Regretting that have felt it ne
cessary for me to make this vindica-
ton of Governor Ross, Secretary
Moore and myself,
am your obedient servant,
GEO. 7. MCGEHEE.
There you have it, gentle reader!
But we regret to have to say that
brother McGehee can scarcely claim
this brilliant effort as original. Pears
10 us we have seen something like it
before. Yes, we are certain-tis
'the old, old story" Beginning with
The second year after we came to the
country it has been rehearsed and
-ehashed frequently during the last
dozen years, SO our people have
earned it by heart Everything in
{ that is worth answering we have
exploded before, so We will be ex-
used now for only noticing it in the
lump. Down to the close of Cashells
it was a simpler story
Of a bad "Injiana" man who had
peen an abOlitonist at the North
md had come down to get fortune
,ut Of the poor Texans by Publishing
/ newspaper in Hays county. But
hen arose the highly imaginative Il
TOung journalist MeLemOre Of Kyle,
md added newsensational features.
BE it was Who by a single stroke Of
,enius converted the Quaker reared
md Southern affiliated editor Of the I
FmE PzEss into a first class ogre, al {
says ready to ,
CT bzvoc AID Ia SIP TIE aoes Ct rEr.~ z
birsting for human gore. especIaiiy